best ipod for books: Any recommendations, including the best site for down loading?
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We have an ipod nano 2gb model, and also the ipod classic 80 gb model. We have loaded audio books on both. The 80 gb works best because it can hold more. We subscribe to audible.com and download our books from them. They download and transfer right into itunes, easy as can be. Our Ipod classic has over 100 books, plus some music, on it and there's still lots of room left. Audible.com has ten of thousands of books including bestsellers, non-fiction, radio shows, and podcasts. I've subscribed for over 5 years I think, and I've never been disappointed.
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Try a public library website. Cuyahoga County in Cleveland and Fairfax County in Northern Virginia both allow patrons to download audiobooks through various formats. They can be loaded through Windows Media Player, although it seems very non-user friendly to me. Also, the files don't seem to hold their place. There may be commercial software to help with that process. On the Audible.com concern, maybe if we Audible.com subscribers banded together and began campaigning Sandisk to work with Audible.com to develop plug-ins, we'd get the issue solved! I sent a couple emails to Audible's technical support, and they basically said the ball's in Audible's (and my) court. Audible listeners of the forum unite!
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I've had an iPod Classic 80Gb since and it works great with the Asteroid. I have also loaded a a couple gigs of mp3s on the SD card as well. A very cool feature is that Voice Command will search all including Spotfy.
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I have put audio books on my nano and currently have seven on there. I had a little trouble initially getting them from Audible.com to my iPod but all it took was checking the audiobooks I wanted and syncing the iPod. I love it.
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The library's a great suggestion -- thanks! I called both SanDisk and Audible to complain about their mutual incompatibility and was told by both that it was up to SanDisk. Anyway, my lesson from all of this is that I should look into these things more thoroughly before I buy another player (which hopefully won't be any time soon!).
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Thanks Carol D. That's exactly what I wanted to know. I've seen demo's on the Stanza and Kindle apps. Now I just need to head to an Apple store and see if I can read on the thing. Thanks!
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I have the Archos 7.It's fantastic!It reads Epub, PDF, Kindle etc..... and page changes are FAST.Best of all, it's colour, so it's a fantastic comic reader too.As well as a video player (excellent quality) it goes on the web effortlessly.Kindle? - Sony book reader? - eat your heart out!
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Sorry this answer is a few days late. I am not sure exactly about books. However, I have copied CDs onto the iPod with no trouble. I have also downloaded files from iTunes as well as other audio files onto the iPod and they work fine. My guess is that either a CD audio book or a purely digital audio file of a book would work perfectly fine.
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One program that I recommend is CloneDVDMobile by SlySoft. You do have to pay for it, but I've had it for over a year, and I've never had a problem ripping a DVD to the iPod. It's really easy to use, too.
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I have the Kindle & my daughter has the Nook. We share by loading books on to our computer on a free program called Calibre. Calibre has a "convert" feature that converts back & forth from Mobi to epub or epub to Mobi since they require different formats (or pdf, etc...) then we load to the other person's reader. Works fabulously!
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I read books on my ipod all the time, whole books. I've never had any other reader. The iPod touch is fine to read on. You can adjust font and background/text colors. While a page on the iPod doesn't show as much as a page in a book it has never been a problem for me.
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Thank you Alan. I will have to try that out. I ended up getting a Nook from B&N.; I was able to go into the store and play around with one which made me feel better about buying it. I know that there are some books on Kindle that I'm going to try and convert.
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Absolutely! I just received mine this weekend. My two ebook readers of choice are Aldiko and the Kindle Android App, both of which work just fine on this tablet. Kindle App will open Mobi files, and if you use their "Send To Device" program (available for both Windows and Mac), it will also add the book to your archives and keep it synced between any other Kindle apps and devices you have. I don't remember if Aldiko supports Mobi files, but I know it supports PDF and Epub. It's my personally favorite ebook reader, because of all the options it has for text color and size, background color, etc. Also it has the option of disabling CSS style sheets, so if the color of the text is coded into the book and won't change when you switch the background to black, or if the book just doesn't look right in Aldiko, you can disable the CSS style sheets and the book usually looks and acts a lot better. The only drawback with Aldiko is no easy way to sync books, bookmarks, and last-page-read between devices.
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I use my old shuffle for listening to books. It's small and cheap so I just keep it in my bag for when I need a book. In fact I have started loading only the book onto it and then when I am done with the book I loan it to a friend, ipod and all.
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Updating Post. I have an Ipad with the Kindle IPAD app on it. I'm very surprised Apple would allow such an app seeing how the books in their store are way overpriced.
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Marian, you are wrong. I second Flora's comment: Audible audiobook are natively supported by iPods. Audible support is explicitly listed in iPod tech specs!
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i just baught a generation 1 itouch ipod are there any down falls of this purchase i should know of? I mean ive always wanted one and my old MP3 player died so i had no choice? It seems like a great idea it holds way more songs does a crapload more stuff and its a touch screen.